"Like Jumping"". As a solo artist, Gardiner had a hit with the song ""Elizabethan Reggae"" in 1970, a version of Ronald Binge's ""Elizabethan Serenade"". When the single was released in the United Kingdom, the first copies were printed with the label incorrectly identifying Byron Lee (not Gardiner) as the performer. Lee was the producer of the track. The UK Singles Chart printed this error for the first chart entry and the first four weeks of its re-entry into the charts. After 28 February 1970, all printings gave Gardiner credit. His debut album, ""Reggae Happening"", was also released in 1970 and"
"Boris Gardiner Boris Gardiner (born 13 January 1943) is a Jamaican singer, songwriter and bass guitarist. Born in the Rollington Town area of Kingston, Jamaica, Gardiner attended Franklin Town Government School and St Monica's College, dropping out of education after being diagnosed with tachycardia. In 1960 he joined Richard Ace's band the Rhythm Aces, which also included Delano Stewart, later of the Gaylads. With the group he recorded ""Angella"", and the local hit ""A Thousand Teardrops"". The group split up and by 1963 Gardiner had joined Kes Chin and The Souvenirs as vocalist, and began learning guitar. He went on"
"2016 film ""Moonlight"". Boris Gardiner Boris Gardiner (born 13 January 1943) is a Jamaican singer, songwriter and bass guitarist. Born in the Rollington Town area of Kingston, Jamaica, Gardiner attended Franklin Town Government School and St Monica's College, dropping out of education after being diagnosed with tachycardia. In 1960 he joined Richard Ace's band the Rhythm Aces, which also included Delano Stewart, later of the Gaylads. With the group he recorded ""Angella"", and the local hit ""A Thousand Teardrops"". The group split up and by 1963 Gardiner had joined Kes Chin and The Souvenirs as vocalist, and began learning guitar."
"John Eliot Gardiner Sir John Eliot Gardiner, CBE HonFBA (born 20 April 1943) is an English conductor, particularly known for his performances of the works of Johann Sebastian Bach and of other baroque music. Born in Fontmell Magna, Dorset, Gardiner's early musical experience came largely through singing with his family and in a local church choir. A self-taught musician who also played the violin, he began to study conducting at the age of 15. He was educated at Bryanston School, then studied history, Arabic, and medieval Spanish at King's College, Cambridge. While an undergraduate at Cambridge he launched his career"
"Soli Deo Gloria label, which specialises in recordings by Gardiner and by his ensembles. Gardiner is most famous for his interpretations of Baroque music on period instruments with the Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists, but his repertoire and discography are not limited to early music. With the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique Gardiner has performed a wide range of Classical and Romantic music, including many works of Berlioz and all of Beethoven's symphonies. A recording of the third symphony of the latter was used in a dramatisation by the BBC of Beethoven's writing of that symphony. Gardiner has served"
"Glover & Friends"" in the credits but was in reality sung by Ronnie James Dio and composed by Hardin. Eddie Hardin Eddie Hardin (19 February 1949 – 22 July 2015) was an English rock pianist and singer-songwriter. Born Edward Harding, he was best known for his associations with the Spencer Davis Group, Axis Point, and Hardin & York. Hardin, along with the drummer, Pete York, left the Spencer Davis Group on 26 October 1968, due to 'differences over musical policy'. He died following a heart attack on 22 July 2015, at the age of 66. The 1975 pop song ""Love"
"off the air on weekday schedules, leading to it being re-instated in 1995. The recording used by the BBC (performed by the Alan Perry/William Gardner Orchestra) was originally only available as library music, but has since 1997 been available commercially as track 11 on the second disc of the EMI CD set titled ""The Great British Experience"" (EMI Classics CDGB50). It is also available as track 8 on the CD ""Elizabethan Serenade: The Best of British Light Music,"" produced by Naxos and performed by the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra. The unexplained crediting of the BBC recording to the ""Perry Gardner"
"1968 he founded the Monteverdi Orchestra. Upon changing from modern instruments to period instruments in 1977, the orchestra changed its name to the English Baroque Soloists in 1978. In 1969 Gardiner made his opera debut with a performance of Mozart's ""The Magic Flute"" at the English National Opera. Four years later, in 1973, he made his first appearance at the Covent Garden conducting Gluck's ""Iphigénie en Tauride"". The English Baroque Soloists made their opera debut with him in the 1977 Innsbruck Festival of Early Music, performing Handel's ""Acis and Galatea"" on period instruments. His American debut came in 1979 when"
"this point on, Laine would sing the theme songs over the opening credits of many Hollywood and television westerns, becoming so identified with these title songs that Mel Brooks would hire him to sing the theme song for his classic cult film western spoof ""Blazing Saddles"". At this time, Laine had become more popular in the United Kingdom than in the USA, as many of his hit records in the UK were only minor hits in his native country. Songs like ""The Gandy Dancer's Ball"", ""The Rock of Gibraltar"", and ""Answer Me, O Lord"" were much bigger hits for him"
"His rendition of the title song for Mel Brooks's 1974 hit movie ""Blazing Saddles"" won an Oscar nomination for Best Song, and on television, Laine's featured recording of ""Rawhide"" for the series of the same name became a popular theme song. You can't categorize him. He's one of those singers that's not in one track. And yet and still I think that his records had more excitement and life into it. And I think that was his big selling point, that he was so full of energy. You know when you hear his records it was dynamite energy. — Herb"
"Robert Septimus Gardiner Sir Robert Septimus Gardiner (1856–1939) was a British businessman. The seventh son of the Rev. George Gregory Gardiner, and grandson of John Gardiner, he attended Grenoble University and was fluent in French, German and English. A successful businessman who served on the boards of many companies; his chief interests were in mining and securities. He also was interested in the arts: he was the composer of the ""Lyric Polka"", he became director and chairman of the board of the Alhambra Theatre. In 1896 he married Alice von Ziegesar, daughter of Baron von Ziegesar; she wrote a book"
"Fontmell Magna in North Dorset, which was established by his great uncle, composer Henry Balfour Gardiner. His continued involvement in this project has earned him the nickname 'Uphill Gardiner' as a consequence of his unorthodox farming methods. In August 2014, Gardiner was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to ""The Guardian"" opposing Scottish independence in the run-up to September's referendum on that issue. John Eliot Gardiner Sir John Eliot Gardiner, CBE HonFBA (born 20 April 1943) is an English conductor, particularly known for his performances of the works of Johann Sebastian Bach and of other"
"Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Besides opera Browner shows great interest in the recital and concert repertoire. In recent years she has sung the great oratorios and many recitals throughout Europe and abroad. Browner has celebrated success with a broad repertoire with renowned ensembles and conductors as Philippe Herreweghe, Eric Ericson and his chamber choir, the Concerto Köln and many others. Browner has sung many concerts with the Limburger Domsingknaben where her husband ""Wilhelm Gries"" is vocal coach, assistant choir director and conductor. Browner's repertoire includes numerous works from the Baroque period (including Bach, Handel, Haydn), classical (including Mozart, Beethoven), Romanticism"
"Eddie Hardin Eddie Hardin (19 February 1949 – 22 July 2015) was an English rock pianist and singer-songwriter. Born Edward Harding, he was best known for his associations with the Spencer Davis Group, Axis Point, and Hardin & York. Hardin, along with the drummer, Pete York, left the Spencer Davis Group on 26 October 1968, due to 'differences over musical policy'. He died following a heart attack on 22 July 2015, at the age of 66. The 1975 pop song ""Love Is All"" from the album ""The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast"" by Roger Glover was credited to ""Roger"
"Egypt"" and Bach's ""Magnificat"" among other works. In 1990, Gardiner formed a new period-instrument orchestra, the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, to perform music of the 19th century. From 1991 until 1995 he was principal conductor of the North German Radio Symphony Orchestra. From the 1990s onwards he undertook more world tours with his ensembles, including: He founded the Monteverdi Choir (1964), the English Baroque Soloists (1978) and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique (1989). Gardiner has recorded over 250 albums with these and other musical ensembles, most of which have been published by Deutsche Grammophon and Philips Classics, and by the"
"two more daughters, Fiodhna and Lynda. All his children are accomplished musicians, carrying on the Irish music tradition, playing melodeon, whistles and concertina. In January 2009, Fiodhna in her band Inis Oirr, entertained the Irish president Mary McAleese in the Emirates Palace Hotel, Abu Dhabi, UAE. Over the years Gardiner proceeded to make further recordings, most notably: ""The Master's Choice"" and ""The Clare Shout"". Gardiner has also traveled extensively with Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann and is a member of the Brú Ború Troupe in Cashel, Co. Tipperary. They have also toured in China as well as Japan, Spain, Canada and the"
"the Monteverdi Choir and the Australian Chamber Orchestra. In 2013, Gardiner published the book ""Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven"". In 2014 he became President of the Bach-Archiv Leipzig. Gardiner has received a variety of honours and awards, including: Gardiner is the son of the British rural revivalist Rolf Gardiner, and the grandson of the Egyptologist Alan Henderson Gardiner. He was married to violinist Elizabeth Wilcock from 1981 to 1997; they have three daughters. In 2001 he married Isabella de Sabata, granddaughter of conductor Victor de Sabata. In his spare time, Gardiner runs an organic farm at Springhead near"
"Soli Deo Gloria (record label) Soli Deo Gloria is a British record label which releases recordings of the Monteverdi Choir and other ensembles conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner. It was founded in order to release recordings made during the Bach Cantata pilgrimage that took place in the year 2000. According to its website, the name ""Soli Deo Gloria"" is drawn from the initials that Johann Sebastian Bach appended at the end of each of his cantatas, dedicating them to the ""glory of God alone"". The label is a not-for-profit organisation. Gardiner had a successful collaboration with Deutsche Grammophon from"
"Recorder and Bassoon, many cantatas, including ""The Ballad of the White Horse"", Op. 40 (1959), ""Five Hymns in Popular Style"", Op. 54 (1962), ""A Burns Sequence"", Op. 213 (1993), as well as much choral, chamber, organ, brass and orchestral music. Gardner's best known work is the Christmas carol ""Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day"", which was written for St Paul's, as was another popular carol setting, ""The Holly and the Ivy"". His final work was a Bassoon Concerto, Op. 249, written in 2004 for Graham Salvage, the principal bassoonist of the Hallé Orchestra, which was premiered at the Budleigh Salterton"
"recording of Handel's ""Messiah"" with the Dunedin Consort winning the ClassicFM/Gramophone award in the Baroque Vocal Category in 2007 and the MIDEM award for Baroque Music in 2008. In March 2010, he was awarded the Royal Academy of Music/Kohn Foundation Bach Prize. List of Professorships at the University of Glasgow Gardiner Professor of Music (Glasgow) The Gardiner Professor of Music at the University of Glasgow was founded in 1928 and endowed by the gift of William Guthrie Gardiner and Sir Frederick Crombie Gardiner, shipowners in Glasgow. The chair was previously a joint appointment with the directorship of the Scottish National"
"Ricky Gardiner Ricky Gardiner (born 1948, Edinburgh, Scotland) is a guitarist and composer. Gardiner was educated at Craigmount School in the Borders of Scotland and later Eastwood School, Glasgow. He joined his first school band the Vostoks in 1962. Next there were the Kingbees and the System with whom he formed Beggars Opera in 1969. He has played in his own outfit, Beggars Opera, and also with David Bowie and Iggy Pop. For Bowie he played lead guitar on the 1977 album ""Low"". He worked with Pop on ""Lust for Life"" the same year. The album included ""The Passenger"", regarded"
"music, including 'Façade Suite' by William Walton for 'Northern News', Ravel -Mussorgsky's 'Pictures at an Exhibition' for 'The Verdict Is Yours', 'English Dances' by Malcolm Arnold for 'What the Papers Say' and many other highly successful and recognisable soundtracks. Probably the most famous piece he commissioned was called 'Lancashire Blues' by Eric Spear for a new soap opera with the working title of 'Florizel Street'. The story goes that a tea lady named Agnes remarked that 'Florizel' sounded like a brand of disinfectant, so the name of the soap opera was changed. Since it first aired in 1960, the 'Lancashire"
"the actress Prunella Scales in over 350 performances of ""An Evening with Queen Victoria"" all over the world, singing songs composed by Prince Albert. He has performed Walton's ""Façade"" at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam with the composer's widow Lady Walton. He has been President of the Incorporated Society of Musicians. He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1992 New Year's Honours for services to music. He gave his farewell recital on 9 October 2008 at the Oxford Lieder Festival. He has conducted masterclasses on Lieder, English Song and Early Music, at Aldeburgh,"
"Helen Gardner's ""New Oxford Book of English Verse"" appeared in 1972. In 1910 he published ""The Sleeping Beauty and other Fairy Tales from the Old French"". He was the author of a number of popular novels with Cornish settings (collected edition as 'Tales and Romances', 30 vols. 1928–29). He was appointed King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at the University of Cambridge in 1912, and retained the chair for the rest of his life. Simultaneously he was elected to a Fellowship of Jesus College, which he held until his death. His inaugural lectures as the professor of English literature"
"as a conductor with a performance of Vespro della Beata Vergine by Monteverdi, in King's College Chapel on 5 March 1964. This either featured or led to the foundation of the Monteverdi Choir, with which he made his London conducting debut at the Wigmore Hall in 1966. Whilst at Cambridge, he conducted the Oxford and Cambridge Singers on a concert tour of the Middle East. After graduating with a master's degree in history, Gardiner continued his musical studies at King's College London under Thurston Dart and in Paris with Nadia Boulanger, whose music had been a very early influence. In"
"(1980), and toured with Numan throughout the world in 1979–81. Following Numan's 'retirement' in April 1981, after final concerts at Wembley Arena, his backing band went its separate ways. Most of the members formed a new group called Dramatis, while Gardiner elected to concentrate on a solo career. Gardiner's debut solo release was a single co-written with Numan called ""Stormtrooper in Drag"" b/w ""Night Talk"" in 1981. It made No. 49 in the UK Singles Chart. On these tracks Gardiner and Numan were credited with guitar and bass, respectively; Gardiner also played synthesizer. Gardiner's recording of The Velvet Underground's ""Venus"
"Norrington (EMI CDC 7492212); Mozart's opera ""Idomeneo"" conducted by John Eliot Gardiner (Archiv 431 674–2); and (as horn soloist) chamber music by Johann Christian Bach with Trevor Pinnock and members of The English Concert (Archiv 423 385–2); and Mozart's Horn Concerti with Hanover Band directed by Roy Goodman (Nimbus NI 5104). Halstead turned increasingly during the 1990s to conducting. Though most famous at that time as a horn virtuoso, he was no novice at leading an orchestra, having studied conducting with Sir Charles Mackerras and Michael Rose; his professional conducting debut had been in 1976 directing the premiere of Elisabeth"
"recording of a newly discovered piece by Bach, ""Alles mit Gott"". As well as music by Bach, the label has since its creation published parallel endeavours of Gardiner and his forces, such as a ""Pilgrimage to Santiago"" CD (recorded after a 2004 tour following the Camino de Santiago). In 2006 the label made headlines with a CD of two Mozart symphonies, recorded live during a concert at London’s Cadogan Hall and released at the end of the evening. Autumn 2007 saw the first recordings with the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, recorded at the Royal Festival Hall in London and the"
"Chris Barber Donald Christopher Barber OBE (born 17 April 1930) is an English jazz musician, best known as a bandleader and trombonist. As well as scoring a UK top twenty trad jazz hit, he helped the careers of many musicians, notably the blues singer Ottilie Patterson, who was at one time his wife, and Lonnie Donegan, whose appearances with Barber triggered the skiffle craze of the mid-1950s and who had his first transatlantic hit, ""Rock Island Line"", while with Chris Barber's band. His providing an audience for Donegan and, later, Alexis Korner makes Barber a significant figure in the British"
"minor sensation. Many major commissions followed and Gardner was suddenly able to call himself ""a composer"". He resigned the job at the Opera House and there followed a remarkable period of creativity. ""Cantiones Sacrae"", Op. 11, ""Variations on a Waltz of Carl Nielsen"", Op. 13 and the ballet ""Reflection"", Op. 14, were all written in 1951 and 1952 and first performed during 1952. He re-wrote ""A Scots Overture"", previously a military band piece, for the 1954 season of Promenade Concerts in 1954. In May 1957 Sadler's Wells put on the opera ""The Moon and Sixpence"", which they had commissioned, and"
"the best known. He wrote a few works outside his normal genre – a rhapsody for saxophone and orchestra in 1936 and a ""symphonic rhapsody"" on Richard Rodgers's ""With a song in my heart"" – his only treatment of music by another composer. But in the main his orchestral works fall into categories: suites, phantasies, marches and waltzes, plus a stand-alone overture and other short orchestral items. Of the thirteen suites, the most often played are the ""London Suite"" (1932), ""London Again"" (1936) and a later work, ""The Three Elizabeths"" (1944), alluding musically first to Elizabeth I, then Elizabeth of"
"Brian Gardner Brian Gardner, also known as Brian ""Big Bass"" Gardner, is an American mastering engineer. He has worked on a number of recordings since the mid-1960s, including classic rock, funk, disco, alternative rock, R&B, hip hop, pop punk and dance-pop. He is known for his work on hip hop albums, including collaborations with Dr. Dre, who gave him the nickname ""Big Bass"". He was last employed at Bernie Grundman Mastering, a mastering house founded and run by Bernie Grundman, and is now independent. Gardner has been nominated eight times for the Grammy Album Of The Year Award, winning it"
"known for his arrangements, such as Baroque versions of the Beatles and a similar adaptation of Elvis Presley, as well as arrangements of popular Christmas music. His 2004 release of all the national anthems of the world was used by the Athens Olympic Committee as the music for medal ceremonies at the Games. His triple CD ""Janacek Operatic Suites"", released on Naxos label, was one of the Top Ten Classical CDs of 2009, according to the ""Chicago Tribune"". Breiner also has a career as a television personality. In early 2000, his talk show on STV (Slovenská televízia), called """"Do You"